Pudd'nhead Wilson ; and, Those extraordinary twins /

The unsolved riddle at the heart of Pudd'nhead Wilson is less the identity of the murderer than the question of whether nature or nurture makes the man. In his introduction, Werner Sollors illuminates the complex web of uncertainty that is the switched-and-doubled-identity world of Mark Twain&#...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015.
Colección:John Harvard library.
Temas:
Infants switched at birth > Fiction.
Passing (Identity) > Fiction.
Trials (Murder) > Fiction.
Race relations > Fiction.
Substitution d'enfant > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Passing (Identité) > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Procès (Meurtre) > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Relations raciales > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
FICTION > Classics.
Infants switched at birth
Passing (Identity)
Race relations
Trials (Murder)
Missouri > Fiction.
Missouri > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Missouri
Fiction
Legal stories.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Introduction by Werner Sollors""; ""Note on the Text""; ""Chronology of Mark Twainâ€?s Life""; ""PUDDâ€?NHEAD WILSON""; ""A Whisper to the Reader""; ""I. Puddâ€?nhead Wins His Name""; ""II. Driscoll Spares His Slaves""; ""III. Roxy Plays a Shrewd Trick""; ""IV. The Ways of the Changelings""; ""V. The Twins Thrill Dawsonâ€?s Landing""; ""VI. Swimming in Glory""; ""VII. The Unknown Nymph""; ""VIII. Marse Tom Tramples His Chance""; ""IX. Tom Practises Sycophancy""; ""X. The Nymph Revealed""; ""XI. Puddâ€?nheadâ€?s Startling Discovery""
  • XII. The Shame of Judge DriscollXIII. Tom Stares at Ruin
  • XIV. Roxana Insists Upon Reform
  • XV. The Robber Robbed
  • XVI. Sold Down the River
  • XVII. The Judge Utters Dire Prophecy
  • XVIII. Roxana Commands
  • XIX. The Prophecy Realized
  • XX. The Murderer Chuckles
  • XXI. Doom
  • Conclusion
  • THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS
  • I. The Twins as They Really Were
  • II. Ma Cooper Gets All Mixed Up
  • III. Angelo Is Blue
  • IV. Supernatural Chronometry
  • V. Guilt and Innocence Finely Blent
  • VI. The Amazing Duel
  • VII. Luigi Defies Galen
  • VIII. Baptism of the Better HalfIX. The Drinkless Drunk
  • X. So They Hanged Luigi
  • Final Remarks
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments

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